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apple-knocker
noun- a rustic, especially a naive one US, 1919
- “I’m an apple-knocker,” he [Casey Stengel] likes to say, “and I’m against all city slickers.” — Time, p. 81, 25 October 1948
- He [Arthur Godrfrey] always sounds like the apple-knocker who’s in the big town for the very first time. — San Francisco Examiner, p. II-1, 6 July 1956
- There are those who think the President sups too heavily on (and with) captains of industry, publishers, and high-placed apple-knockers. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 20, 23 December 1965
- I didn’t get any serious action on Broadway for a while, because I was still an apple knocker[.] — Minnesota Fats, The Bank Shot, p. 61, 1966
- He was an open apple knocker from the West Side wearing plain Monkey Ward jeans rather than Levi’s and high-top horsehide shit kickers. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 55, 1974
- an outdoor toilet US
From the image of apples dropping onto the outhouse roof. - — John Gould, Maine Lingo, p. 36, 1975
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